Faronics

Faronics is a Canadian company from Vancouver, founded in 1996, and it is best known for an idea that has nothing to do with detection: Deep Freeze, which discards every change made to a computer when it restarts. Put on a library, classroom or kiosk machine, it means whatever a user or a piece of malware did is simply gone at the next reboot. That product, not antivirus, is what most of its customers buy. Its security products sit alongside that: Faronics Anti-Virus and Faronics Anti-Virus Enterprise Workstation, managed centrally with the rest of its estate through Faronics Deploy and Faronics Core. Its market is shared-computer environments — schools, colleges, libraries, public access points — where the administrator's problem is a hundred machines used by strangers rather than one machine used by one person. Read its products in that light rather than against consumer suites.

Country

🇨🇦Canada

Headquarters

🇨🇦Vancouver, Canada

Year Established

1996

Employees

300

Customers

30K organisations (2026)Vendor states: Faronics — About

Users

12M devices protected (2024)Vendor states: About Faronics | IT Security & Management Solutions Since 1996

Revenue

$40.0M (2026)Estimated by LLM

Website

https://www.faronics.com/

Status

Active